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make out
verb as in see, recognize
verb as in understand
verb as in get by, succeed
Example Sentences
They're also proof that no matter how fancy you are, you can't escape the urge to watch two girls make out.
Jenny Slate and Rosario Dawson make out at midnight because everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
If you zoom in on Google Maps, you can just make out the jumbles of industrial machinery tucked away inside.
We could make out what she said cheekily in response to his questions.
They peered out into the gloom from Battery Park and could not make out her form.
Who he could not make out, except that it was a Kirton: and it prayed him to hasten down immediately.
Well, old boy, I guess you lost me more than I'll make out of you; but you've given me what I ought to have had three years ago!
I could not make out what it was, for the wind-was rustling the corn-shocks, but I arose and feigned to listen.
He stopped in the road and turned towards his companion, the shining of whose eyes he could just make out in the gloom.
And she thanked Heaven that in the dusk and in the shadow where she stood he could but ill make out her face.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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